Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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• 'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Horror

• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Me
  • Animals

• I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Work
  • Law
  • Lie

• Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Food
  • Resolution
  • Heartbreak

• It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • People
  • Art
  • Interesting

• Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Up
  • Nothing
  • Boring

• My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Role

• I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Known
  • Grave
  • Chief

• There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was cool - and when I was eight, I begged my parents to let me have lessons. After a couple of weeks, I wanted to give up, but my parents were very focused and made me keep going, which I'm very pleased about now.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Art
  • Faith

• When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Angry

• God is a great concept, but it doesn't work

  

  Kevin Smith
  • Work
  • Great
  • God

• I think people take a liking to a voice or something that makes them smile and feel good about themselves.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • People
  • Good
  • Smile

• I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.

  

  Alice Englert
  • School

• And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Women
  • Cooking

• People are like, 'Wow you started your own record label,' and treat me like I'm some sort of innovative genius, when I'm not at all. You've got the Internet and music - you put them together, and people hear your music.

  

  Courtney Barnett
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Someone

• The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

  

  Aristotle
  • Poetry
  • Expression
  • Excellence

• My next desire is, void of care and strife,To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life:A country cottage near a crystal flood,A winding valley, and a lofty wood.

  

  John Dryden
  • Life
  • Country
  • Desire

• The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon.

  

  John Astin
  • Phenomenon
  • Feedback
  • Association

• Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Truth
  • Poetry